Find out how much space each file is occupying
Sathya | March 19th, 2008 - 4:21 pm
Consider this situation. You want to know much space is available on your hard disk. No big deal, du can tell you the stats. For this open the terminal and type du -h. You will get the required details as below
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads
35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
177M /home/sathya/Downloads
sathya@shaman:~$ du -h /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu\ debs/
35M /home/sathya/Downloads/kubuntu debs
But this isn’t sufficient, and neither is it very elegant. You want to know how much space each file is occupying, or what’s the max filesize occupied by a file. And you want to achieve this with out any console commands. Sounds tough?
Not really! Konqueror comes with an inbuilt “File Size View” which allows you to do just that. And the neat thing is that this works for all mounted partitons. To open this view, open Konqueror. Right click, choose Preview in and select “File Size View”
Once this is selected, another view comes up, showing the size of each file. It may take a minute or two as the filesystem is scanned and the files begin to show up. In the end you’ll get a view like:
This is really useful if you want to free up some space on your hard disk, or if you don’t know which file is taking up all that space.
PS: I don’t know of a similar utility for GNOME, as I don’t use it. Would appreciate it if any GNOME users can comment on a similar app.
PPS: If you’re using KDE 4.x , then as of now, Dolphin doesn’t have the File Size view, so you can’t check this. There’s another program, KDirStat, which can perform the same utility, but I haven’t tested this. Any comment on this would be much appreciated as well!
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Or, switch to Windows XP!
Gnome has disk usage analyzer. For windows its WinDirStat.
@Rajiv Thanks for the update on GNOME. And yes, WinDirStat is a port of KDirStat to Windowa
hey i would love to know more about ubuntu….anyways its a great open sourcing site! keep up the good work
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^ Thanks for the compliments
‘Stumbled’ here today.
FYI
du -hac downloads/
list (h) in human readable form (a) all files and (c) produce a grand total for the local directory ‘downloads.
[dmcreynolds@host-192-168-30-82 ~]$ du -hac downloads/
5.7M downloads/eclipsemessenger.zip
86M downloads/eclipse-java-ganymede-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz
8.8M downloads/apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz
92K downloads/GDM-DarkCleanLinux.tar.gz
3.9M downloads/flash-plugin-10.0.12.36-release.i386.rpm
64M downloads/jdk-6u11-linux-i586.rpm
40K downloads/sun-javadb-common-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
908K downloads/sun-javadb-demo-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
4.4M downloads/sun-javadb-docs-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
188K downloads/sun-javadb-javadoc-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
116K downloads/provider_for_google_calendar-0.5.1-tb+sb.xpi
19M downloads/jre-6u11-linux-i586.rpm
2.1M downloads/lightning-0.9-tb-linux.xpi
8.0K downloads/QA.p12
7.8M downloads/axis-bin-1_4.tar.gz
1.2M downloads/enigmail-0.95.7-tb+sm.xpi
332K downloads/Klikit Dragon Blue.tar.gz
480K downloads/sun-javadb-client-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
3.7M downloads/sun-javadb-core-10.4.1-3.1.i386.rpm
207M downloads/
207M total
David, thanks for the tip
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